What Is Guided Meditation?
Meditation can be done both as a solo venture, or with someone guiding you. In guided meditation, you can either go to a professional who offers the service or invest in resources where a soothing voice guides you through the process.
You might even record the session yourself and play it back or have a trusted friend or loved one read a transcript you've prepared or downloaded off the Internet. There are many ways to achieve guided meditation.
When you're using a guide in your meditation process, you have help staying focused and your meditation is usually deeper because you do not have to think about the process - you simply follow along.
If you're working with a trained professional or using a professional CD
You may even join a guided meditation group, where one leader (or a few) guide a group of individuals in their de-stress and relaxation sessions. Of course, going to a group meeting will be less expensive than an individual session, but investing in audio sessions allows you to really maximize your investment because they can be used again and again.
To learn more about guided meditation, read on!Table of Contents
Relaxation CDs
Guided Meditation Exercise
Multi-Media Guided Meditation Aids
Guided meditation can help you get into a more relaxed state, where you can address your stress on a deeper level. By using help to meditate, you're free to concentrate on the words and meaning rather than having to work on getting into a relaxed state on your own.Guided meditation can be done free-form, where a trained professional leads you without following any sort of script. Or, it can be done by someone who reads from a prepared script that is either inspirational to you or has been prepared by you beforehand.
Another verbal method of applying guided meditation is by using Subliminal CDs
or podcasts that have been created as audio components to your meditation program. Some have phrases or sentences repeated over and over again while others recite uplifting and positive messages that help erase the stress of the day.Visual aids are also used in guided meditation. You can download videos from the Internet or invest in DVDs
that are sold to individuals to help them visually concentrate on their relaxation techniques.Some people like to apply a variety of guided meditation methods to help them alleviate stress, while others find one technique that works best and continue using that instead of breaking up their routine.
What to Look for in a Guide for Your Meditation
If you're seeking a more relaxed state of mind - a way to leave the stresses of the world behind you - then you might want to enlist the help of a guide to lead you from the chaos that currently consumes you to a more peaceful state of existence.If you're going to a professional meditation guide, then you'll want to find someone you can feel comfortable with. The person should heighten your awareness of your subconscious mind and help train you to be independent of his sessions when it comes to being able to apply meditation and relaxation concepts.
If you're using a visual aid, then you'll want to choose some that are in sync with what you like to see when you think of serenity. For example, don't pick out a psychedelic flurry of images if it tends to make you feel dizzy and confused. If it's an ocean shore with crashing waves that relaxes you, find a guided meditation aid that delivers what you want.
With any aid - whether it's a professional, a video, or an audio tool, you'll want to find one where the person leading you as your guide has a voice you find soothing. Sometimes a person's voice can irritate us more than it relaxes us, so your guide must have a tone and style you find comforting.
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Meditation, according to Wikipedia
Category: File - :Endurodoug.jpg|thumb|250px|A statue of Buddha meditating, Borim Temple, Korea
Meditation is a mental discipline by which the practitioner attempts to get beyond the reflexive, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Meditation is a component of many religions, and has been practiced since antiquity. It is also practiced outside religious traditions. Different meditative disciplines encompass a wide range of spiritual or psychophysical practices that may emphasize different goals—from achievement of a higher state of consciousness, to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind.
Eastern meditation techniques have been adapted and increasingly practiced in Western culture.
Have You Ever Used Guided Meditation to De-Stress?
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- Sonia_Gallagher Sonia_Gallagher Aug 26, 2009 @ 7:29 pm
- Great lens! I write about meditation too because of the incredible impact it has had on my life. I actually just finished creating the longest list of free online guided meditations including then in audio and video formats. You can see the list at http://www.mymeditationgarden.com/guided-meditations/the-big-list-of-free-guided-meditations/ I hope you enjoy it and welcome suggestions for additions!
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- MeditationGuide MeditationGuide Jun 10, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
- I was totally dysfunctional for several months due to long term stress. When I was up enough to start to look for ways out, a friend took me along to a Buddhist centre where they had an open meditation class. The tranquility I felt after those sessions lasted for hours. But I couldn't get the same results at home. Then I found Holosync. I have been a daily user for over two years now and wouldn't start the day without it.
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- Lizblueberry Lizblueberry Jul 21, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
- I am a high stress type personality and this was a very useful lens for me. Well done!
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- jasmineann jasmineann Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:37 am
- I really like this lens, thank you for sharing. Very useful information. Meditation either guided or self meditation is one of the things I use regularly to help me with stress or just when I want to feel nice and relaxed. Lensrolling to my coping with the stress of back pain lens and leaving you 5 stars :)
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- ShortSaleRealtor ShortSaleRealtor Apr 22, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
- Great lens hi 5 to you
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- Bella21 Bella21 Apr 17, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
- Thank you for reminding me, I am due for a relaxing day at the beach. Thankfully, the weather is getting nice enough for me to do just that. I can spend hours looking out at the water and it will seem like only minutes! I never put together that is meditation until now...I usually meditate at home, and go to the lake to think or clear my head, but that is the same as meditation, right? Hmmm...
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- mulberry mulberry Mar 25, 2008 @ 3:07 am
- The video is very relaxing. You've included some good information and resource, great lens!
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- ViSalus_Sciences ViSalus_Sciences Mar 22, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
- Very cool article. I like the waves video you included. I use guided meditations from kelly Howell and Peter Ragnar. Walking on the beach always relaxes me as well.
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- SemperFidelis SemperFidelis Mar 19, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
- Relax? What the heck is that? I think I did that before I had 5 children 18 years ago!
Blessed by a Squid Angel today! :o)
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- Graceonline Graceonline Mar 5, 2008 @ 12:42 am
- I have been fortunate to experience a number of delightful, peaceful and insight-provoking guided meditations. Not only can a guided meditation relieve stress, it may also invoke a blissful, sometimes ecstatic state of mind that stays with one for hours afterward. Thank you for this lens, and for your deeply encouraging comments on a couple of mine.
